De Leon's grand slam, six RBI's pace Scrappers win

Mahoning Valley defeated the Batavia Muckdogs 8-5.
BATAVIA, N.Y. -- Evandy De Leon had a career night for the Mahoning Valley Scrappers.
Unfortunately for him, there weren't too many witnesses.
Before a sparse crowd of just 969, De Leon went 3-for-5 with a grand slam and six RBIs overall, leading the Scrappers to an 8-5 victory over the Batavia Muckdogs in a New York-Penn League game Monday night.
De Leon's slam in the fifth inning rallied Mahoning Valley (32-34) from a 5-1 deficit. One inning later, his single drove in Trevor Mortensen to give the Scrappers a 7-5 lead.
De Leon also drove in a run in the third inning with an infield single.
Remain five back
The victory, just the third for the Scrappers in their last 10 games, kept them five games behind Auburn in the Pinckney Division standings.
Auburn defeated Jamestown, 8-4, Monday night.
Batavia (28-36) scored single runs in each of the first three innings, mostly with the help of Mahoning Valley miscues.
In the first, Julian Williams led off with a single, stole second, went to third on a flyout by Clay Harris, and scored when Scrappers' starter James Deters uncorked a wild pitch.
Andy MacFarlane's single in the second inning made it 2-0, then in the third, Williams doubled to lead off the inning and scored when Mahoning Valley second baseman Matthew Fornasiere mishandled Brett Dalton's grounder.
The Muckdogs took a 5-1 lead in the fourth on RBI singles by P.J. Antoniato and Dalton.
SCRAPPERSBATAVIA
abrhbiabrhbi
De Leon rf5136Williams cf4230
Chavez ss4000Dalton 2b2011
Fornasiere 2b3020Harris 1b5000
Clem 3b1000Costanzo 3b4020
Hiser 1b5010Slayden lf4000
Lytle 3b-2b5110Baez dh3110
Cmbrbatch dh5110Marson c4000
Mortensen lf4221MacFarlane rf4121
Woodson c1000Antoniato ss4111
Rfnbrger ph-c3100
Thomas cf4210
Totals408117Totals345103
Scrappers001042100--8
Batavia111200000--5
E--Fornasiere, Dalton, Costanzo, Kendrick, Antoniato. DP--Scrappers 4, Batavia 1. LOB--Scrappers 9, Batavia 8. 2B--Fornasiere, Baez, Williams, Costanzo, MacFarlane. 3B--Thomas. HR--De Leon. S--Mortensen. SB--Chavez, De Leon, Williams. CS--Reifenberger.
IPHRERBBSO
Scrappers
Deters495512
Amaya W, 2-2410054
Loberg S, 7100000
Batavia
Kendrick L, 5-3577415
Hill2 2-341122
Overholt1 1-300001
PB--Marson. WP--Deters, Kendrick. Umpires--Home, Chris Hamner; First, Andrew Russell. T--3:08. A--969.